Today we went to William's Walk. William and his mom, Christa (from Giada's school), are friend's of ours who set up the walk to raise funds for a new college scholorship for Autistic Children. You can read more of the story behind the walk here. The weather was beautiful and we had lot's of fun. It was great seeing so many of Giada's friends and teachers there!
Giada's "touchdown dance":
It's hard to tell who's who in the helmets. Ben is the slightly taller one and starts out facing the camera each round. They tied.
The kids baked yummy scones for the dads. Giada had some too. :)
Considering she only had one square of Ghirardelli chocolate, I'm wondering if any made it into her stomach?!?
A perfect way to start out my birthday.
Way to go buddy! Very proud of you!
The Daytona 500 was on when I turned on the television and Giada asked, "Are they going home?"
One the way home from school, Giada saw the people cleaning the windows at Big Boy and said...
He seems to be having fun!
Autonomous robot quadrotors perform an impressive rendition of the “James Bond Theme” in this video released today by the University of Pennsylvania GRASP Lab. The video premiered earlier today at a TED2012 talk presented by roboticist and GRASP Lab member Vijay Kumar. The video was directed by Kurtis Sensenig.
“Years” is a modified record player that analyzes the growth rings on a cross section of a tree and translates the information into ghostly piano music (video). The device was created by German artist Bartholomäus Traubeck.
A tree’s year rings are analysed for their strength, thickness and rate of growth. This data serves as basis for a generative process that outputs piano music based on the year ring data. Those are analyzed for their thickness and growth rate and are then mapped to a scale which is again defined by the overall appeareance of the wood (ranging from dark to light and from strong texture to light texture). The foundation for the music is certainly found in the defined ruleset of programming and hardware setup, but the data acquired from every tree interprets this ruleset very differently.
I'll be impressed as hell if they pull of that landing!